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Re: Google Maps now include Australia

ceejayoz — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:38:38 -0000

I thought these were in Google Maps since the first day it went worldwide. I know I zoomed in on Melbourne that day and was able to see individual houses just like the United States satellite imagery permits.

Street maps would still be wonderful, though.

Re: 2008/07/28/openid-and-oauth/

ceejayoz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:54:18 -0000

Sure, until you have to change your password and have to do it in 30 different sites...

Re: 11 Ways to Lose Friends and Followers Online

ceejayoz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:40:51 -0000

Sorry, but the number one thing that'll make me unfollow someone?

Caring so much about your number of followers that you change what you're tweeting about to avoid losing a single one of them. Some of these might be applicable to corporate accounts where you're the voice of a company, but otherwise? Tweet about what you want and screw the numbers game.

Re: Jakob Nielsen gives us blog design advice

ceejayoz — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:46:23 -0000

Does Wordpress.com permit you to install plugins?

I'm pretty certain I've seen post rating/voting plugins for Wordpress that would do the trick. Of course, if your Wordpress install is locked down, that's not really an option...

Re: How are people finding blogs? It’s not blog search engines

ceejayoz — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:57:29 -0000

Mujibur, you're confusing monopoly with an abusive monopoly.

Google is a non-abusive monopoly, but they're still a monopoly.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly.

Re: Pubsub’s new reading lists interesting

ceejayoz — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:43:58 -0000

Unrelated, but you may wish to talk to Wordpress.com about this...

I just got sent to the following error page when accessing your site: http://wordpress.com/errors/503.html

Now, it tells you to reload... but reloading the static error page doesn't do you much good, for obvious reasons.

Maybe you could get them to reword it? :-)

Re: Is Web 2.0 a Bubble?

ceejayoz — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:26:41 -0000

Higher Definition Web?

What happens for the next iteration? Even Higher Definition Web?

Re: Apple guy gives Xbox team some advice

ceejayoz — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:07:33 -0000

Both companies launched products with such high demand that they quickly sold out.

Apple and MS are supposed to be depressed about that?

Re: New shopping site opens: Longtail

ceejayoz — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:50:26 -0000

Not sure if it's not working right or if it requires IE, but it's not working in my Safari right now. Meh.

Re: Apple stores powered by Windows?

ceejayoz — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:40:25 -0000

"Can we stop the trolling in ‘06- this isn’t my blog and even I get tired of it."

Ah, the classic "stop trolling" troll.

As you said, it's not your blog. You're under no obligation to read it.

Re: The anti-RSS hype

ceejayoz — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:32:29 -0000

I wonder what the percentage is for those who've heard of Slashdot... heehee.

Re: The anti-RSS hype

ceejayoz — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:33:17 -0000

Whoops, submitted too early. Anyhoo... remember, Slashdot is the site that called the iPod "lame" when it was released. No one should let their feelings get too horribly hurt by stuff said on /.

Re: A little more on mobile Websites

ceejayoz — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:34:54 -0000

Some site designs need to have the navigation on top. I've found the best way is to have a "skip navigation" link going to an anchor on the top of the content div.

Re: Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

ceejayoz — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:16:44 -0000

"I heard he won’t use any PowerPoint slides tonight."

Thank goodness! :-p

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationze...

Re: Track your comments, no matter where you make them

ceejayoz — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:53:37 -0000

I'm definitely finding that, Steph. More of my free time sucked away! *g*

Re: Surprise: Slashdot misrepresents facts

ceejayoz — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:04:17 -0000

One thing's nearly certain - you won't find Slashdot issuing a correction or retraction. Flame wars mean page impressions mean profits. I've no doubt the editors take the most intentionally inflammatory version of a writeup on any given linked article.

Re: Um, doesn’t this patent have prior art?

ceejayoz — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:24:02 -0000

Let's hope someone's willing to spend those millions.

I don't want my little shop to get extorted into paying tens of thousands of dollars worth of licensing fees to avoid a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Re: Ouch, what if Microsoft designed the iPod box

ceejayoz — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:38:39 -0000

The music is perfect. Thanks for the link. :-D

Re: Congrats to Writely for using .NET to get acquired by Google

ceejayoz — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:34:08 -0000

@ Christopher Hawkins:

"You know very well what I was getting at when I said that AJAXY, non-Microsoft apps get all the love these days."

Writely is a) AJAXy and b) non-Microsoft. What other invalid distinctions are you going to come up with to cover for your lack of knowledge about what AJAX is?

Hell, MICROSOFT themselves have released an AJAX toolkit as part of ASP.NET - Atlas. http://www.asp.net/default.aspx?tabindex=9&...

Re: Rewrite of Windows Vista underway? Hogwash!

ceejayoz — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:34:10 -0000

Yeah, a 60% rewrite was pretty silly for the tech sites to jump on. That'd be a major undertaking even in a small project, let alone an entire operating system.

Re: Steve says “I shoulda been there”; gives me a “reality check”

ceejayoz — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:53:20 -0000

I'd imagine the explanation is simpler than that - given the fact that WordPress.com likely has users in every time zone in the world, it makes sense to pick the "universal" time zone and let everyone work from there.

Re: New Scooble Logo

ceejayoz — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:19:14 -0000

Scooble sounds so much funnier than Scoble. Teehee.

Re: Microsoft marketing mistakes

ceejayoz — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:36:05 -0000

Josh Einstein: "I don’t understand why people work so hard to make the web work more like desktop apps when desktop apps are right there."

Quite simple - because they're NOT always "right there". I can get my e-mail and calendar from anywhere. If I'm in the airport and I want to drop by LaptopLane to find an e-mail, I don't have to install anything - I just pull up a web browser and I'm set.

Don't be so myopic. Just because you don't need it yourself doesn't mean others can't find it exceedingly useful.

Re: Microsoft marketing mistakes

ceejayoz — Mon, 08 May 2006 11:05:30 -0000

Josh Einstein: "ceejayoz, then why do you care if you have right click/drag and drop/etc?"

Because they're useful user interface patterns that let me get my work done faster and more intuitively?

"I can’t even tell you the last time I’ve needed to check my mail from someone else’s computer."

I'll say it again - "I don't have to" is not a valid argument against something. I doubt you need tampons, either, but presumably you don't argue against their production.

Vivek: "It sure isnt true with customers and partners I speak to - who are these web developers? Which organizations do they belong to?"

I'd imagine they belong to organizations like the Web Standards Project.

Most of the frustration stems from IE6's lack of support for a few key things - variably transparent PNGs, proper XHTML, a lot of the newer CSS, et cetera. Microsoft was good with releases - IE3 in 1996, IE4 in 1997, IE5 in 1999, IE5.5 in 2000, and IE6 in 2001. After IE6, though, we got a five year halt in releases.

CSS2 had been out for three years by 2001. PNG had been out for five. XHTML for one. I don't hate Microsoft for this, but it's certainly extremely frustrating not to be able to use 5-10 year old handy technologies that the other browsers have supported for quite some time.

Re: Microsoft marketing mistakes

ceejayoz — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:42:41 -0000

Ari: "We are a country of 5 million and how many of them are nerds? 1% or 5% or less?? Well why should Microsoft only listen to them?"

Because that 1-5% are the ones Microsoft is targeting with their web development platforms. Non-nerds don't make websites - why on earth would you listen to someone who doesn't make websites on subjects like this pertaining to making websites?

"We have a huge demand of .NET coders, more and more projects are done with .NET, which is fast reliable and cost effective."

The issue is not with .NET. You're setting up a strawman. The issue is with IE requiring hacks and workarounds to get some useful stuff working that should have found their way into an IE6.5 years back.

We're not talking about the server-side stuff. Microsoft's server-side offerings are nice, and compete just fine with PHP, Java, etc. That's not the issue.

The issue is Internet Explorer's massive lag time in implementing standards. Another issue is Microsoft's launching Live.com sites without any support for Firefox - with 15% market share (and far greater amongst early adopters - an important customer segment, that!), it shouldn't be ignored.

Live.com should have been designed from the start to work in IE AND Firefox - otherwise, you lose a lot of customers to Google and Yahoo!, who seem to have no problem doing so.

Re: Top 13 reasons to consider Microsoft for Web 2.0 development

ceejayoz — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:09:04 -0000

I don't really see how "Microsoft has these things, too!" are reasons to consider the platform. You need to show me what the Microsoft platform does better if you want me switching.

LAMP has free developer tools, free databases, Atlas was partially based off the open source Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries, it can scale, etc. Other than the names in #7 and #8, there's nothing unique to the MS platform on that list.

If Microsoft can't come up with genuine advantages over other platforms, they're not going to see much movement.

Re: The call…

ceejayoz — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:48:40 -0000

I'm sorry to hear that.

Re: Huh? Someone wants my king Evil spot?

ceejayoz — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:55:10 -0000

The words “Web” and “2.0″ would seem mighty generic to me.

So are "Windows" and "95", but it isn't surprising that Microsoft defends that trademark.

That said, there's no way they should be able to have "Web 2.0" service/trademarked. That's absurd.

Re: Dear Al Gore: here’s some inconvenient truths

ceejayoz — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:55:45 -0000

"Too bad you and Al have no faith in the free market to allocate resources in the most efficient manner."

The free market allocates resources with short-term profits in mind.

We've long seen that big business needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into acting more responsibly in the long-term. You want a look at how an unrestricted free market runs things? Look at working conditions in the 1890s.

Re: Dear Al Gore: here’s some inconvenient truths

ceejayoz — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:57:59 -0000

"Or, hell, explain why, despite being so convinced of global warming, Al Gore had no problems dancing around the country on a freaking private jet (and in the electronic age, no less!), which single-handedly provided many, many times the amount of CO2 (and water vapor, heh) of a family’s normal use of an SUV."

For the same reason the President does it instead of walking - his time is valuable. Gore's flying around has the potential to do far greater good than it does harm, by opening peoples' eyes.

Nice to see so many people taken in by the the group advertising with "CO2 - they call it polution, we call it life" and funded by the oil companies. Screw the climate scientists - Big Energy must know what they're talking about, right? And no ulterior motives, of course!

Re: Dear Al Gore: here’s some inconvenient truths

ceejayoz — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:18:13 -0000

"Explain to me again how your standard of living is better? With waiting lines for medical care, fewer cars per family (harder to travel), smaller homes, higher taxes, and more expensive fuel."

This speaks to ignorance of the European lifestyle.

Waiting lines for medical care are a myth, and ignore the fact that the vast majority of Americans have to wait for their specialist care as well. My fiancée took three months to get into her first neurologists appointment. Fewer cars per family would mean harder to travel only if Europe didn't have a far superior public transportation system - you can take high speed rail just about everywhere. I personally prefer smaller homes, the higher taxes help with amenities like cheaper health care and public transport, and fuel isn't that much of a concern when you can take the train.

Re: Video comment plugin for Wordpress

ceejayoz — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:58:54 -0000

Akismet is stunningly effective. One of my sites had 13,000+ comment spams caught with one or two missed. Absolutely amazing.

The WordPress theme Tarski I did with a friend isn't bad, either, if I may say so myself. ;-)

Re: Forget the $100 PC?!?

ceejayoz — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:02:59 -0000

I tend to doubt the target market for the $100 PC can afford to go and commit to a two year $40/month plan to get that $100 price.

Re: Apple stabs Adobe in the back

ceejayoz — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:52:15 -0000

"Flash isn’t that heavyweight..."

Apparently you've never used the Mac version, particularly on something like a Mac mini. I've no doubt it'd be slow as a stone statue of a dog on the iPhone.

Re: Mike Arrington’s dream team has wrong goal

ceejayoz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:10:43 -0000

"We didn’t go into World War II to beat Hilter. No, we went into it to protect our principles."

Not really, no.

We went into World War II to beat Japan, who'd just surprise attacked us. Principle had little to do with it, unless "fight back when attacked" is a principle.

If we'd fought WWII on principle, we'd have joined the war in 1939 when Hitler was rampaging through Europe.

Re: My new roommate: Craig Newmark

ceejayoz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:59:48 -0000

Do us all a favour and give him a big earful about not having an RSS feed for the Craigslist blog - http://blog.craigslist.org/

Re: Silicon Valley’s janitor problem

ceejayoz — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:49:32 -0000

"Umm yes, they are, try coding in something outside python."

App Engine isn't even in beta. It's a preview release. They picked one language to start with, not as a final total.

Re: PR-less launch kicks off a stack overflow of praise

ceejayoz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:31:05 -0000

@Public Relations - and *you* need a decent website before pitching your services. Hell-ooooo, 1990s!

Re: Don’t cry for journalists…

ceejayoz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:16:36 -0000

Is that really fair? That's well under one per nation there, and this is a pretty unusual event. You can't expect the Russian media to trust the American media to take all the photos they want of their athletes, and vice versa.

Re: Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

ceejayoz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:06:36 -0000

The @twply Twitter account is getting pretty testy.

Re: Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

ceejayoz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:26:26 -0000

@twply - Clearly, people are pissed off. Telling people to stop complaining will not stop them complaining.

Adding a clearer message like "this will post a link to our website on your Twitter stream" would do a lot to resolve the issue. The wording you use is ambiguous even to a native English speaker like me - it is not clear what "supporting you" does.

Re: Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

ceejayoz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:52:14 -0000

@Megan Taylor - @replies are not direct messages. The two are separate things.

Re: Twitter warning: your account data is being sold

ceejayoz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:17:06 -0000

What assholes.